the most on-the-nose statement of values here is this one:
Outside the governor’s office on the north side of the building stands a monument to the Confederate soldiers and sailors Davis got killed. It’s 88 feet tall.
At the southeast corner, there’s an eternal “Flame of Freedom” left by the American Legion to honor those who served and remember the lives lost in the other American wars. That monument is about six feet tall.
Also, the eternal flame has gone out. In fact, I don’t remember ever seeing it lit.
it's not even that alabama is just white supremacist, in general--it's that alabama is so white supremacist that white supremacy as a value takes priority pretty much everywhere in the state, however uncontroversial other values might be. i have no doubt that most white people in alabama think of themselves as patriotic american citizens who support the troops and everything they've done for america, but it's obvious that those values take a backseat to their white grievances 99% of the time.